Syria’s government has condemned the capture of Afrin by the Turkish military, calling on Ankara to “immediately” pull out troops from the northwestern Syrian city.
The Syrian Foreign Ministry voiced strong opposition to Turkey’s takeover of Afrin in two letters to the United Nations on Monday, protesting the move as "illegitimate.”
"Syria condemns the Turkish occupation of Afrin and the crimes it...

Turkish-backed forces have assumed full control over the city of Afrin in Syria’s Aleppo province following the deliberate abandoning of the city and its surrounding countryside by Kurdish fighters.
In every respect of the word, pro-Ankara forces seized Afrin effortlessly. Just over an hour after storming the small city from its southwest and northeast, Turkish-backed militants met in its center.
Despite months...

It has become apparent that literally hundreds of rebel fighters that serve among the ranks of Turkish-backed forces in Afrin (namely, the Free Syrian Army) are ex-ISIS terrorists.
According to sources, the gradual rollback of ISIS across northern and eastern Syria between mid-2016 to the end of 2017 prompted hundreds of Islamic State terrorists to flee to Turkey via surrendering to...

Iran, Russia and Turkey, guarantors of the Syria ceasefire, have reaffirmed their strong commitment to the Arab country’s sovereignty and territorial integrity after a tripartite foreign ministerial meeting in Astana, Kazakhstan.
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Russian and Turkish counterparts, Sergei Lavrov and Mevlut Carusoglu, convened in the Kazakh capital to address the situation in Syria on Friday.
The city...

Following an official statement by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesperson saying that Ankara is willing to cooperate with Washington in Syria to create a shared security zone around the city of Manbij (currently held by US-backed forces), additional commentary was made regarding Turkey’s intentions for Afrin.
According to Ibrahim Kalin, President Erdogan’s spokesperson, Turkey has no intention to hand over...

Pro-Syrian government forces shelled Turkish positions in northern Syria on Wednesday in response to a Turkish air strike that killed five of their fighters, a pro-government commander said to Reuters.
The Syrian fighters used artillery to target the Turkish positions in the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, the commander told Reuters.
The Turkish air strike hit a checkpoint on the road...

Turkish warplanes have struck a government-controlled Shiite-majority town and military checkpoint area in the northern countryside of Aleppo province amid an intensified air campaign over Syrian skies.
According to a statement released by local pro-government activists, Turkish aircraft bombed the town of Nubl an unspecified number of times. Early reports say that at least three civilians were killed in the strikes.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has slammed NATO over its refusal to aid Ankara in its anti-terror operations in Syria’s northwestern region of Afrin.
"Hey NATO where are you? We’re fighting so much. NATO, Turkey is not a NATO country? Where are you? ," RT quoted Erdogan as saying on Sunday.
Erdogan added that NATO would even go up against Operation Olive Branch if...

Search teams have found the black box of a Turkish private jet that crashed earlier in an Iranian mountain range on its way from the UAE to Istanbul, also recovering 10 bodies from a total of 11 who had been on board.
The Turkish jet, identified by Turkish media as a Bombardier CL604, crashed in the Zagros Mountains outside the city of...

A private Turkish plane flying from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to the Turkish city of Istanbul with at least 11 people on board has crashed in western Iran, the spokesman for Iran's Civil Aviation Organization says.
The Turkish jet suddenly disappeared from the radar while passing through Iran's airspace and crashed near the Iranian city of Shahrekord in Chaharmahal and...